Horse marsh-shoe



(No Model.)

-0.DUMKE, HORSE MARSH SHOE.

No. 338,166. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES DUMKE, OF PORTLAND, VVISOONSIN.

HORSE MARSH-SHOE.

EjPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 338,166, dated March 16, 1886,

Application filed February 2, i886. Serial No. 190,616. (No model.)

Fig. 2 is an for horses a shoe having an extended surface,

to be worn in soft marshy places, to prevent the horses feet from sinking into the ground.

My invention consists in a board provided at opposite edges thereof with bars having series of oblong holes, and in combination therewith of eyebolts provided with T-shaped heads, and a lever-fastener with the eyebolts, for clamping the board to the horses hoof. The board A, which is of the general form of the horses foot, but larger, is provided on its upper surface, near opposite edges, with the bars 13, having offset middle portions, a, in which are formed series of transverse oblong holes I). The offset bars B are secured to the board A by bolts 0, which extend through the board and through slots d in the ends of the bars. In the upper surface of the board A are formed recesses for receiving the heel and toe calks of the horses shoe, and in the oblong apertures of the bars B are inserted the eyebolts 0, having T- shaped heads, which, after insertion in the holes of the bars, are turned transversely across the holes, so as to retain them in their places in the bars. Links D D are received in the eyebolts O, the link D being longer than the link D, and provided with a hooked cam-lever, E, which engages the link D and carries it over the end of the link D, as shown in Fig. 1, the lever E when in a locked position being about parallel with the front of the horses hoof, and the extreme end of the lever E being turned up slightly to cause it to engage the earth or grass, should the horses feet sink into the earth so far as to bring the extremity of the lever E into engagement therewith. The foot of the horse is placed upon the board A, with the heel and toe calks of the shoe inserted in the recesses of the board,when the link D is laid over the top of the horses foot, the link D is slipped over the free end of the lever E, when the lever E is turned down into the position shown in Fig. 1, firmly clamping the hoof of the horse to the board A.

By changing the position of the eyebolts C in the apertured bars B the shoe may be adapted to horses feet of different sizes, and the slots d of the end of the bars permit of their adj ustmcnt upon the bolt 0.

The under surface of the board A is provided with two metallic strips, f, which are secured thereto by the bolts 0,which also clam p the bars B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination,with the board A, pro vided with recesses for receiving the heel and toe calks of the horses shoe, of the offset apertured bars B, the eyebolts 0, provided with T- shaped heads, the links D D, and the camlever E, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination,with the board A, provided with recesses forreceiving the heel and toe calks of the horses shoe, of the offset apertured bars B, the metallic strips f, the bolts 0, the eyebolts 0, having T- shaped heads, the links D D, and the cam-lever E, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES DUMKE.

Witnesses:

H. A. WEDEMEYER, J. H. HARGER. 

